Among the sites offering support for your upcoming BBW events and activities are:

Kids’ Right to Read Project (American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) address book challenges and bans in schools and libraries.) The 18-page PDF manual offers useful backgroud, as well as a state-by-state list of banned books

In case you are curious about titles recently banned, ALA notes that more than 400 books were challenged in 2007. And the dubious achievement awards for the 10 most challenged titles go to:

1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
2. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
3. Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
4. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
7. TTYL by Lauren Myracle
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
9. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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